CVE-2026-34182

EUVD-2026-35478
Issue Summary: Cryptographic Message Services (CMS) processing fails to perform
sufficient input validation on the cipher and tag length fields of
AuthEnvelopedData containers, leading to various potential compromises.

Impact Summary: Attackers making use of these vulnerabilities may achieve
key-equivalent functionality for a given CMS recipient and/or bypass integrity
validation for a given message.

In one use case, an attacker may send a CMS message containing
AuthEnvelopedData with the cipher specified as a non-AEAD cipher.  OpenSSL
erroneously allows this selection, and attempts to decrypt and validate the
message.

An on-path attacker who captures one legitimate AES-GCM AuthEnvelopedData
addressed to the victim can re-emit it with the recipientInfos set left
byte-for-byte intact, so the victim's private key still unwraps the genuine CEK
(the content-encryption key), but with the inner OID rewritten to AES-256-OFB
(Output Feedback Mode, an unauthenticated keystream mode) and with an
attacker-chosen IV and ciphertext. The victim initializes AES-256-OFB under the
real CEK, never consults the MAC field, and CMS_decrypt() returns success.

If the application under attack responds to the attacker with any indicator
showing success or failure of the decryption effort, it is possible for the
attacker to use this as an oracle to obtain key equivalent functionality for the
CEK used for the chosen recipient of the message.

In another use case, an attacker can reduce the tag length of the chosen AEAD
cipher for a given AuthEnvelopedData container to be a single byte long,
allowing an attacker to brute force CMS decryption, producing an integrity
bypass for applications that trust CMS_decrypt() to reject modified content.

The FIPS modules are not affected by this issue.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
opensslCNA
UNKNOWN
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
VendorProductVersionSource
opensslopenssl
4.0.0 ≤
𝑥
< 4.0.1
CNA
opensslopenssl
3.6.0 ≤
𝑥
< 3.6.3
CNA
opensslopenssl
3.5.0 ≤
𝑥
< 3.5.7
CNA
opensslopenssl
3.4.0 ≤
𝑥
< 3.4.6
CNA
opensslopenssl
3.0.0 ≤
𝑥
< 3.0.21
CNA
Debian logo
Debian Releases
Debian Product
Codename
openssl
bookworm
vulnerable
bookworm (security)
vulnerable
bullseye
vulnerable
bullseye (security)
vulnerable
forky
vulnerable
sid
vulnerable
trixie
vulnerable
trixie (security)
vulnerable
Ubuntu logo
Ubuntu Releases
Ubuntu Product
Codename
openssl
bionic
not-affected
focal
not-affected
jammy
Fixed 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25
released
noble
Fixed 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11
released
questing
Fixed 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4
released
resolute
Fixed 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2
released
trusty
not-affected
xenial
not-affected
openssl-fips
jammy
dne
noble
dne
questing
dne
resolute
dne
openssl1.0
bionic
not-affected
jammy
dne
noble
dne
questing
dne
resolute
dne
nodejs
bionic
not-affected
focal
not-affected
jammy
needed
noble
not-affected
questing
not-affected
resolute
not-affected
trusty
not-affected
edk2
bionic
not-affected
focal
not-affected
jammy
not-affected
noble
needs-triage
questing
needs-triage
resolute
needs-triage